The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-03-25
A LESSON WITH A MORAL.
When Will Our Eyes be Opened to
this Great National Calamity

this Great National Calamity
The year 1886 played sad havoc with
many prominent men of our country.
Many of them died without warning, pass.
ing away apparently in the full flush Of
life.
Others were sick but comparatively
short time. We turn to our files and are
aston ished to find that most of them died Of
apoplexy, of paralysis, :of nervous prostratiou
of malignant blood humor. of Bright's dis
ease, of heart disease, Of kidney disease, Of
rheumatism or of pneumonia.
1t is singular that most of our prominent
men die of these disorders. Any journalist
who watches the telegraph reports viii! be
astonished at the number of prominent
victims of these disorders.
Many statements haye appeared in our
paper with others to the effect that the dis
eases that carried off so many prominent
men in 1886 are really one disease. taking
different names according to the location
of the fatal effects.
When valuable horse perishes, it be-
comes the nine days talk of the sporting
world, and yet thousands of ordinary
horses are dying every day. their aggregate
loss is enormous, and yet their death ere
ates no comment.
So it is with individuals. The cause of
daath of nro,nipant pnan o.oo tos ,,ororoant
especially when it can be shown that one
unsupported disease carries off most of them
and yet "vast numbers of ordinary men
and women die before their time every year
from the same cause"
1t is said if the blood is kept free from
uric acid, that heart disease, paralysis, ner-
vous prostration, pneumonia, rheumatism,
and many cases of consumption, would new
er be known. This uric acid, we are told
is the waste of the system, and it is the duty
of the kidneys to remove this waste.
We are told that if the kidneys are main
aimed in perfect health the uric, kidneys,
acid is kept out of the blood, and these
sudden and universal diseases caused by
uric acid will, in large measure, disap-
pear.
But how shall this be done? 1t is fol-
ly TO treat effects. If there Is any know Il
way of getting at the cause, that way should
be known to the public. We believe that
Warmers safe cure of which so much has
been written, and so much talked off by
the public generally, and which can be OBJ
tanned of dealers everywhere is now recog-
nized by impartial physicians and the pub
lie as the one specific for such diseases.
Because public attention has been di-
rected to this great remedy by means of adj
vertising, some persons haye not believed in
the remedy. We cannot see how Mr.. War
ner could Immediately benefit the public in
any other way, and his valuable specific
should not be condemned because some
nostrums have come before the public in
the same way, any more than that all dcct-
ors should be condemned because so many
Of them are incompetent.
1t is astonishing what good opinions you
hear on every side of that great remedy,
and public opinion thus based upon an act
ual experience, has all the weight and i'm
portance of absolute truth.
At this time of the year, the uric acid in
the blood invites pneumonia and rheuna-
tism, and there is not man who does not
dread these monsters of disease; but he
need have ne fear of them, we are told. if
he rid the blood of the uric acid cause.
These words are strong, and may sound
like an advertisement and be rejected as
such by unthinking people, but we believe
they are the truth, and as such they should
be spoken by every truth-loving newspap
err